Toyota accuses fired worker of major security breach

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By John E Dunn
Techworld
29 August 2012

Car maker Toyota has filed a lawsuit against a worker it claims attacked 
the company's US parts supply website as retribution for being fired.

Alleged bad behaviour by workers and former workers is common but the 
speed at which events have unfolded in this case is still unusual.

The accused, Indian contract programmer Ibrahimshah Shahulhameed, was 
reportedly only fired by the company on 23 August, but by this week 
Toyota had alleged a range of bad behaviour in a suit filed in a 
Kentucky court.

According to Toyota, after being dismissed Shahulhameed accessed the 
toyotasupplier.com web portal, sabotaging 13 web applications and 
interfering with the security certificates in a way that led to a system 
crash.

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